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Участие представителей РГПУ им. А.И. Герцена и Высшей школы перевода в конференции CIUTI
On 17 – 18 January, First Vice-Rector Sergey Goncharov and Deputy Director of the School Angelique Antonova took part in the conference “Facing the World’s New Challenges. The Role of T&I in Providing Integrated, Efficient and Sustainable Solutions” held by CIUTI (Conférence Internationale Permanente d’Instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interprètes), the world’s oldest and most prestigious international association of university institutes with translation and interpretation programs. First Vice-Rector S. Goncharov made a presentation «The role of Russian in the New Geopolitical Settings with Special Focus on the Commonwealth of Independent States» which provoked a lively discussion among the Heads of Translation and Interpretation Services in the European Commission and Directors of Translation and Interpretation Schools.
The conference offered Vice Rector Goncharov and Deputy Director Angelique Antonova an opportunity to have a number of useful meetings with senior officials from the UN, the European Commission and Directors of European translation and interpretation schools. The results of a five year cooperation programme between Herzen University and the UN Office in Geneva were discussed at the meeting with Director of the UNOG Conference Management Department Vladimir Grachev. Mr Grachev expressed his satisfaction with the graduates’ level of performance and shared his vision of developing a Conference management programme at the School.
An agreement on cooperation between Herzen University and the WHO (World Health organization) was reached at a meeting with Mr. Mc Carey, Head of the WHO Translation Service. Under this agreement, the School will train language specialists to meet the needs of the WHO.
Mr Martikonis, Director General of DGT, the European Commission, was satisfied with the cooperation between Herzen University and DGT. He stressed the importance of maintaining the momentum of cooperation in translator training despite financial constraints. In recognition of the quality of the translation program at the School, Mr Martikonis proposed that the School should join the EMT (European Master’s Program in Translation).
Director General of DG SCIC at the European Commission, Mr Benedetti, assured First Vice-Rector Goncharov that the cooperation between DG SCIC and Herzen University will gather pace regardless of the economic problems, as DG SCIC is seeking to employ qualified interpreters with the Russian language moving forward, and the School is the only institution in Russia with an appropriate training program. Mr Benedetti confirmed his participation in the conference “Fighting the Fog in Multilingualism” to be held on 4-5 March at the Herzen University and timed to mark Director Irina Alexeeva’s jubilee.
A meeting with Ms B. Moser-Mercier, Director of FTI UNIGE, was both fruitful and interesting. The parties discussed steps to be taken to start a joint Master’s program in Conference Interpreting in partner universities and the upcoming visit of the Geneva University delegation to Herzen University as part of the Scientific and Technological Cooperation program Switzeland – Russia. The delegation also plans to take part in the events marking Director Alexeeva’s jubilee.
At the meeting with Ms T. Bodrova, Director of ESIT (L’École Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs), the parties agreed to cooperate in training conference interpreters and translators. Ms T. Bodrova will also take part in the jubilee conference.
[nggallery id=73]Казахские дипломаты завершили обучение в школе
A pilot project of training Kazakh diplomats at the St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation has become one of the highlights of the year. Over the semester four Kazakh diplomats went through the “Language Mediation in International, Multilateral and Business Communication, Conference Interpreting and Translation” programme. On 21 January 2012 Vice-Rector for International Affairs Sergey Shilov and Deputy Director Angelique Antonova awarded the graduates Herzen University diplomas. The Consul General of Kazakhstan in St Petersburg Mr. Bekedzhan Zhumakhanov congratulated ‘the illustrious four” and bid them farewell good advice. The high guest also expressed hopes for the continuing cooperation and shared his vision of such cooperation.
ГОТОВИТЬ ПЕРЕВОДЧИКОВ ДЛЯ ОЛИМПИЙСКИХ ИГР: ФОРУМ В СОЧИ
SOCHIFORUM: TRAIN INTERPRETERS FOR THESOCHIOLYMPICS
On December 7 – 8, the Sochi-2014 Organizing Committee held the 2nd Forum “Interpreting issues” on the premises of the Olympic Park inSochi. The Forum brought together hundreds of participants from all over the country and abroad. Director Irina Alexeeva representedHerzenUniversity, and made a report “Training Interpreters: ways to mastering the profession (good practices of the St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation,HerzenUniversity)”. The Forum discussions addressed the issues of quality, progress levels of intensive training for sport interpreting during the Olympics and Paralympics in 2014, the challenges of professional and volunteer interpreting and translation, the specific features of interpreters’ work in the Paralympics. A word of appreciation was extended toHerzenUniversity for holding a webinar on memorizing and speech techniques forSochi volunteers in October 2012. Good technical support of the event won a special praise.
The Forum discussed “Guidelines for Training Interpreters” published by the Sochi Organizing Committee.
The Forum delegates attended the Figure Skating Grand Prix Final, where our colleagues interpreters are presently working.
15 ноября 2012 г.: Школа приняла участие в конференции Генерального директората письменного перевода «Translating Skills into Jobs»
On 15 November, School Deputy Director Angelique Antonova took part in the 2013 DGT – EMT conference “Translating skills into jobs”. The conference addressed translation quality criteria and their adjustment for recent graduates, graduate employment and strategies to bring together graduates and employers. The presentations were followed by discussions, and I was pleased to note that many of the proposed ideas have already been realized in the School, while in certain respects the School is well in advance in building cooperation with the employers. The School’s good practice of building cooperation with the linguistic services of the UN, Russian MFA, as well as with the Russian private translation agencies was appreciated by the DGT and the conference participants.
The School received an invitation to join the EMT Consortium.
The meeting with Mr Martikonis, Director General of the DGT, outlined the perspectives for the further cooperation between our organizations. Mr Verleysen, Director of the DGT, accepted the invitation to take part in the conference “Fighting the Fog in Multilingualism” organized by the School in March 2013.
At another meeting, the representatives of the DG SCIC, European Commission, the School’s Vice-President Noël Muylle and Deputy Director Antonova discussed the possibility to introduce congress and meeting management as a training module in the School curriculum.